Philip Fletcher has written a long letter to the Aero Club in which he poses many questions regarding
Elmer and also offers many important bits of information. In response, Bill Deane has answered some of his questions and offered many
other facts of interest. You can read the whole exchange by clicking on the title above.

I first became aware of Elmer Allah Burlingame several years ago while working on a Burlingame family
genealogy. A distant relative sent me two printed pages of information about Elmer Burlingame, and it was of a nature that I was certain
that it was the product of a genealogy mill. One of the sheets was the "Burlingame Bulletin" and it consisted of endless testimonials
about Burlingame that indicated that he was a combination of Tesla, Edison, Steinmetz, Einstein, Alger and Bell............